Accident
on Shasta Lake, Redding, California. During landing on Shasta Lake
just before 12:30 p.m., right wing float hit debris in the water some 500 yards
from Bridge Bay Resort.

R/H wing dipped into the water. The pilot gave throttle to try
to get the wing out of water. The plane went in
circles three to four times, before the attempt failed.

When
it stopped, pilot/owner Stephen Lantz and his two passengers — Thomas Giles, 72, of
Anderson, and Douglas McLain, 70, of Redding — climbed out. Then the
plane flipped and began to sink as the men scrambled on top of it.

Bridge Bay employees quickly made it
to the sinking plane and rescued the three, deputies said.

Stephen Lantz and his
companions had taken off from Benton Airpark in Redding before landing
on the lake.